Wisches

Wisches is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

Wisches is located in the west of the the Low-Rhine, in the valley of the distant Bruche downstream from Schirmeck of 5 km. Served by the secondary road 392 doubled by RD 420 which connects the commune to Molsheim and Strasbourg (by the A352), Wisches FOR THE THIRD TIME lays out of a station on the line Strasbourg-Molsheim-Saales-St-Dié-Épinal.

In addition to the Beetle which marks the south-eastern limit of the round of applause, the commune is sprinkled by various brooks which go down from the solid mass of the Donon of which Netzenbach and Schoenbruch.

Principal tops: small Donon (961 m), the Coast of the Machine (911 m), Kohlberg (907 m), Top of the Pre St-Jacques (551 m).

Variations and localities

Netzenbach, Hersbach, the Kid

Communes bordering

Lutzelhouse and Muhlbach-on-Beetle in the North-East, Russ in the south, Schirmeck in south-west, Grandfontaine in the west, Saint-Quirin in north

History

Administration

Twinning

Demography

municipal population in 2006: 2.305

Places and monuments

Its church has splendid a Orgue, incontestably one of the masterpieces of the house Stiehr Frères, it was received in 1859. It did not have whereas two keyboards, third was built by Theodore Jaquot.

See the details in: Organ of the area of Schirmeck

Personalities related to the commune

François Joseph Drouot of Walk, general (1733-1814).

External bonds

History & geography of Wisches
nonofficial information on the commune
Wisches on the site of the national geographical Institute
Wisches on the site of INSEE
Wisches on the site of Quid
Localization of Wisches on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Wisches on Mapquest

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